Doctor’s Rebirth

Chapter 142

The cold energy inherent in the Ice Clarity Sword’s blade and the cold energy created by Jin Cheon-hee’s Five-Elemental Divine Technique stole the enemy’s warmth and froze it.

Meanwhile, the sword energy of the Ice Clarity Sword grew longer and more intense.

While the sword itself wasn’t even half a jang (1.5 meters) long, the sword energy surrounding it extended to a full jang (3 meters) in length.

It flickered like a flame, possessing fierce cold energy and sharp killing intent.

It was quite peculiar.

It instantly froze and shredded anything that approached.

This was possible due to the mixture of cold energy and sword energy, and because almost all of the pure energy of the Five Elements True Qi had been infused into it.

‘The true qi consumption is enormous! I’ll be finished in 30 seconds? But that should be…’

Jin Cheon-hee took a step forward.

Behind the Corpse Spirit Demon and the approaching Black Living Jiangshi, he could see the dazed children. Anger surged within him.

“Just for something like that.”

The burning in his heart was hot, unlike the coldly flickering ice flame sword energy.

“You sacrificed children just to make something like that, you bastard!”

The sword slashed down vertically.

A straightforward sword path. But the opponent couldn’t dodge.

A strike that allowed nothing but blocking. But blocking would not leave one unscathed.

A mass of sword energy that hadn’t become strong energy.

However, the total amount of true qi infused into it was enough to create strong energy and more.

Therefore, even though it wasn’t strong energy, its power could absolutely not be underestimated.

But at the same time, the Black Living Jiangshi also launched its body from the side.

If Jin Cheon-hee brought his sword down,

After a very brief moment, the Black Living Jiangshi would attack Jin Cheon-hee’s side.

However, Jin Cheon-hee’s expression didn’t waver.

Here.

He would subdue the Corpse Spirit Demon.

With iron-like will, he brought the sword down.

Seeing this, the Corpse Spirit Demon’s expression turned vicious.

“So you were the seed of the half-immortal that the Blood Immortal prophesied!”

It was strange. Despite the fleeting moment, he could hear what the enemy was saying.

Jin Cheon-hee felt like he heard the Corpse Spirit Demon’s voice in that instant.

Although those words might have distracted his concentration, Jin Cheon-hee continued to bring down his sword.

“I’ll kill you and offer you as a sacrifice to the Blood Immortal!”

Knowing he couldn’t dodge, the Corpse Spirit Demon stretched out his hand holding the bell.

As a dark energy rotated and settled on the bell, an ominous and evil power overflowed in all directions.

Corpse Spirit Jiangshi Technique – Corpse Dissolution Demon Spirit Slash.

The Corpse Spirit Demon’s ultimate technique.

The sword and bell collided in mid-air, their infused energies mixing as they entered a power struggle.

Kwaaaa.

The surrounding energy waves vibrated.

Cracks formed in the stone floor and ceiling, creating ripples. And in between, the Black Living Jiangshi arrived and stretched out its hand.

Pueok!

A strike buried itself in Jin Cheon-hee’s side.

There was a cracking sound of bones breaking.

“Hahaha! Little White Dragon, you’ve lost… What!?”

However, Jin Cheon-hee’s expression remained unchanged. And the sword energy imbued in Jin Cheon-hee’s Ice Clarity Sword very quickly devoured the energy of the Corpse Dissolution Jiangshi Technique in the Corpse Spirit Demon’s bell.

“W-why…”

“The Black Living Jiangshi was ordered to ‘capture’ me, wasn’t it? It won’t attack me fatally. Look. After hitting me, it’s just standing still, not knowing what to do. It thinks it has ‘captured’ me.”

“What?”

“Jiangshi… they’re nice. Really nice. But… they’re not alive in the end, are they? And you didn’t use your full power from the start. As a result, your momentary true qi was weaker than mine, so this happened. You’re being pushed back.”

Having experienced the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Jin Cheon-hee knew how futile artificial intelligence could be.

‘Even in modern times, robot vacuum cleaners get stuck at the entrance and beep for help… how would a jiangshi be any different?!’

No matter how strong the Black Living Jiangshi was, only humans could fix the flaws arising from the commands themselves.

The sword energy gradually advanced towards the Corpse Spirit Demon.

His face turned pale.

“As I said earlier, Corpse Spirit Demon.”

His arm was pushed back, unable to withstand the force.

Cold sweat streamed down his face.

“The fact that you sacrificed children just to make something like that… I really, really don’t like it. So.”

Jin Cheon-hee’s eyes turned cold.

“…Reflect on it in the afterlife.”

Jin Cheon-hee decided to kill someone.

It was a decision that would completely break everything he stood for, but there was no other choice.

Not only was this opponent not one he could spare, but as a Taoist priest rather than a martial artist, even if he cut off his four limbs and meridians and destroyed his danjeon, he didn’t know what kind of blessing the so-called evil immortals might bestow to revive him.

He decided to stop judging whether this was right or wrong.

If breaking his insignificant ‘self’ could stop this, he decided to do so.

A piece of his heart shattered.

The pain was a good thing.

It meant that the heart inside Jin Cheon-hee was still alive.

Jin Cheon-hee thus gave up on protecting himself.

And the sword sliced through the Corpse Spirit Demon.

“Kuaaaaaah!”

The Corpse Spirit Demon screamed.

The sword cut deeply from his shoulder to his waist.

However, thanks to the Corpse Dissolution Jiangshi Technique, his body was certainly tough and resilient, so it wasn’t completely severed.

It was deeply cut, and the wound immediately froze.

His body fell backward.

Simultaneously, Jin Cheon-hee swung his sword to the side.

Tsugagak–!

The Black Living Jiangshi’s neck was stupidly cut by that sword, and it collapsed.

Naturally, the jiangshi’s neck also froze and cracked.

Thud.

Kneeling on one knee, he used the sword as a cane to support his body.

“Huu…”

The sword energy dissipated. He had used up every last bit of his inner power.

Jin Cheon-hee was breathing heavily with an extremely tired face.

‘Now I need to take the children and go… and detoxify… it’s hard.’

Even though he had killed the Corpse Spirit Demon, the strange poisonous fragrance filling this cave didn’t disappear.

To eliminate it, he needed to continuously circulate the Five Elements Counteracting Poison to detoxify.

‘But I don’t have the strength to move even a fingertip.’

Jin Cheon-hee longed for his furry friends.

But he didn’t know if those animals could resist this poisonous fog.

If they were intoxicated by the fragrance and controlled by the enemy, it would become troublesome in its own way.

“Right… if I’m going to die, I should at least take the kids back first. Ugh…”

His legs trembled.

Even the simple act of standing up from a sitting position caused Jin Cheon-hee hellish pain.

Due to the sudden loss of strength, it wasn’t easy to maintain consciousness.

‘I wonder how Three Seasons Tiger is doing.’

Judging by the fact that no other black-clad figures were coming down, it seemed Three Seasons Tiger had done everything she could.

‘I hope she’s alive… This area doesn’t even have a branch of the White Dragon Medical Pavilion.’

Just as he was about to take a step… one step towards the children, a chilling sound rang out from behind him.

Creak-

A signal that things were going to get messy.

When he turned around, wasn’t that damn Corpse Spirit Demon twitching and getting up?

“You… brat—!”

The Corpse Spirit Demon’s angry roar echoed loudly inside the stone chamber.

‘Did he revive by turning his own body into a jiangshi? Crazy…?’

That wasn’t all.

The enemy’s face began to glow red.

“Evil immortal! Please grant me strength!”

It was a self-destruction technique.

‘The Black Thunder Blood Devil’s self-destruction technique was strong too, but to think I’d see the Corpse Spirit Demon’s like this…’

Even in the novel, this guy didn’t self-destruct.

That means he’s incredibly angry right now!

Jin Cheon-hee smiled bitterly.

‘Hahaha, this… there’s no solution.’

No remaining inner power or physical strength.

Not even the energy to run away to save his own life.

Jin Cheon-hee raised his Ice Clarity Sword.

The tip of the sword trembled due to his muscles reaching their limit.

His whole body screamed.

Is death so easy to come?

Jin Cheon-hee recalled his death in his previous life.

It was sudden then too.

While there were some regrets, he had done everything he could, so that was enough.

‘Have I done everything I can now?’

Yes, he had.

Jin Cheon-hee accepted the form of death before his eyes.

At that moment… a thunderous sound roared.

Kwarurung!

The ceiling of the stone chamber shattered.

From the pitch-black night sky, a man with hair darker than that night poured down.

Yet his skin was so pale that he seemed to be made of only black, white, and red.

That being, who had grown from a boy into a young man, fell down.

“Found you, brother.”

A voice that had just passed through puberty resonated as if scratching the walls.

***

Yeo Ha-ryoon, falling from the ceiling, saw his brother.

The wounds covering his brother’s entire body, the children his brother was protecting with his back, and the monster in human form in front of him.

Twice.

Only twice had he restrained himself, and that was now over.

The killing intent of the Heavenly-Killing Star sang gleefully.

‘It’s similar to demonic techniques, but not from the demonic cult.’

How should he kill it?

What would its screams sound like?

In the moment of falling, Yeo Ha-ryoon had already finished preparing to kill the enemy.

He gripped his sword in reverse and twisted his body once.

Using the energy of the fall, he descended like a guillotine.

Heaven Gathering Dark Sword.

Dark Dragon Falling Chain Sword–!

It was named so because it looked like a black dragon falling.

Distribution of inner power? Optimal posture? Dispersion of sword energy?

Yeo Ha-ryoon cared about none of these. The madness of the Heavenly-Killing Star guided him.

Even if it were a stronger enemy, it would be the same!

Swoosh!

Jin Cheon-hee couldn’t see how Yeo Ha-ryoon used his sword.

It was like living destruction.

With that single strike, the Corpse Spirit Demon’s head flew into the air. Yeo Ha-ryoon joyfully admired the cross-section.

But his fingertips still tingled. This sensation.

‘He’s still alive.’

There were such beings in the demonic cult too.

Ones that moved for a while even after their heads were cut off.

It was different from rigor mortis. It was similar to mating mantises or ants with their heads cut off.

The spinal cord sends signals, unaware that the brain has been severed.

Yeo Ha-ryoon, with an expressionless face, slashed his sword diagonally.

What Yeo Ha-ryoon slashed was empty air.

Surprisingly, sword energy was embedded in the air along the sword path.

Without advancing, Yeo Ha-ryoon traced over that stationary sword path several times.

The enemy ran towards Yeo Ha-ryoon.

The painter of death lifted his sword instead of a brush.

Black Dragon Sword Technique.

Time-Space Killing.

The compressed sword energy in the air flew out all at once, beginning to brutally butcher the enemy’s body.

Tsugagak-!

Strangely, the sword energy wasn’t released simultaneously, but flew out with subtle time differences.

Even if the enemy defended and blocked, they would inevitably be hit by the hidden sword strikes immediately after.

‘I don’t even understand the principle.’

Only the sound of air escaping from lungs echoed.

After the quiet slaughter, Yeo Ha-ryoon spoke.

“Brother. I’ve come to get you.”

“Yes… Fortunately, you weren’t late.”

As the tension released, blood rose in his throat.

Yeo Ha-ryoon said,

“You’re still crazy, brother. Did you face something like that alone?”

“It was worth it.”

Yeo Ha-ryoon reached out and grasped Jin Cheon-hee’s arm to support him. Jin Cheon-hee felt his consciousness fading. So he hurriedly said,

“Three Seasons Tiger should be at the entrance. Go check.”

“That person is safe. I killed all the black-clad figures. By now, she’s probably searching for any documents that might remain here.”

“The children… send them home. The aftereffects…”

“…I’ll take care of that.”

“And…”

“Rest, brother.”

“…”

With those words, Jin Cheon-hee’s body completely collapsed.

Yeo Ha-ryoon clicked his tongue.

“Brother is still strong, and still worries those around him.”

What should he do with this crazy brother?

The differently crazy younger brother fell into contemplation.